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SUBMITTER: Mathers TC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3628881 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mathers Thomas C TC Hammond Robert L RL Jenner Ronald A RA Hänfling Bernd B Gómez Africa A
PeerJ 20130402
'Living fossils', a phrase first coined by Darwin, are defined as species with limited recent diversification and high morphological stasis over long periods of evolutionary time. Morphological stasis, however, can potentially lead to diversification rates being underestimated. Notostraca, or tadpole shrimps, is an ancient, globally distributed order of branchiopod crustaceans regarded as 'living fossils' because their rich fossil record dates back to the early Devonian and their morphology is h ...[more]